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Improper Access Control

CVE-2024-8216

Medium
5.3/10

Summary

A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, has been found in nafisulbari/itsourcecode Insurance Management System 1.0. Affected by this issue is some unknown functionality of the file editPayment.php of the component Payment Handler. The manipulation of the argument recipt_no leads to improper access controls. The attack may be launched remotely. NOTE: The vendor was contacted early about this disclosure but did not respond in any way.

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  • NETWORK
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  • UNCHANGED
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CWE-284 - Improper Access Control

Listed 5th in the 'OWASP Top Ten', improper (or broken) access control attacks are a fundamental type of vulnerability. This includes a broad range of design flaws that enable users to act outside of their intended permissions. They can use these privileges to gain access to restricted files and functionality such as accessing restricted information, falsifying records, destroying data, or executing commands.

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Advisory Timeline

  • Published